Within the historic landscape it is frequently possible to identify the impact of deeply religious figures who have exercised very real and long-lasting spiritual influence on their communities and indeed on the very landscape itself.
Often these are shadowy figures in a distant past where myth and history intertwine. Sometimes it is difficult to be certain that they existed at all, and certainly not in the form in which they appear in tradition. In a sense their substance does not matter because it is the subsequent influence on their communities and the development of a religious landscape that is important. This formative influence affects our present-day landscape but often has its roots in an ill-defined past...